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Month: August 2015

Amazing Modern Maze: Dystopian Steel Labyrinth Installation

This steel labyrinth looks like something left behind after the production of a dystopian film, its irregular grid of steel rising and falling onto the concrete surface outside Belgium’s C-mine ...

Flip, Stack, Connect: 13 Highly Customizable Furniture Designs

Somewhere between half-hearted DIY jobs and expensive custom-created solutions, there’s customizable furniture kits, which make it easy to create the ideal setup for your home and life without ...

Chicken Church: Fowl-Shaped Abandonment Found Deep in Forest

Reportedly inspired by a divine message, the architect of this poultry-shaped church initially set out to create a place of worship in the form of a giant dove, but the locals quickly dubbed his ...

Tree of 40 Fruit: Fresh Interview with Nature’s Master Grafter

Seven years into his experiments, the living artworks of Sam Van Aken are bearing far more than just fruit, each new variant of the Tree of 40 Fruit building on experiences learned from the ...

Amazing Aerial Photos of LA and NYC Reveal Urban Geometry

No matter how far and often you might wander around your city, there’s one way you most likely never get to experience it: from above. Approached from directly overhead, the bird’s-eye-view ...

Tools That Rule: 13 Ways to Work Smarter, Not Harder

Most of the tools we use have looked the same for decades, if not centuries, but that doesn't mean they're optimized to be as useful, convenient and durable as they can be. These clever tweaks on ...

BIG Plans to Turn 4 London Power Plant Chimneys into Tesla Coils

Danish firm BIG Architects has a feasible strategy for converting four iconic smokestacks in the center of London into a series of gigantic pedestrian-powered Tesla coils. These would be the ...

Putt Hurt: 12 More Abandoned Miniature Golf Courses

Most miniature golf courses have 9 or 18 holes per course. These dozen abandoned courses, on the other hand, have more holes than Blackburn, Lancashire. ...

Guerrilla Grammarians Fix Street Graffiti Spelling & Punctuation

Calculated correctors, this team of vigilante street art fixers patrols for grammatical mistakes then regroups to decide on edits before hitting the streets of Quito, Ecuador, to deploy ...

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Masterpiece Mashup: Genre-Crossing Digital Art Compositions

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